Sunday, December 16, 2012

Handmade help for Sandy Hook Elementary

2 days after the horrifying massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, CT and I am still completely sick to my stomach over what happened there Friday morning. I can't even begin to fathom what these families are going through. My heart breaks for the innocent lives that were lost. It's just not fair. At times like this there are no answers. We can only look to each other for love and support.

Now is the time to come together and help this community however we can. I have decided to help Heidi from Snappy Tots on her "Beanies for Brave Students" project. Heidi has asked the crochet community to help crochet 600 hats in green and white (their school colors) for the brave survivors at Sandy Hook Elementary. I crocheted my first 3 hats last night and plan on buying more yarn to make more. I used Vanna's Choice yarn in Kelly Green and White. They are asking for only Green, White or Green and White striped beanies. If you want to help by crocheting a beanie, please be sure to read all the "rules" before you begin. You can find more information about this wonderful project HERE. Thank you Heidi!

Here is a list of other projects going on to help Newtown and the victims of Sandy Hook. I am sure there are many more. Please list any you know of in the comments. It is heartwarming to know that there are still good people in this world that are going to great lengths to help in whatever way the can. THANK YOU!

600 Monsters Strong is collecting friendly handmade (knit or crocheted) monster for Sandy Hook. Read more about it HERE. There is a list of approved crochet (and knit) patterns in their GUIDELINES.

I have already made one cute little monster following one of their free approved crochet patterns: Plarko the Monster by Stacey Trock. You can find the free pattern HERE.

Kim's Peanut Gallery is hosting an auction to raise money for Sandy Hook families. She is encouraging boutiques to donate an item by Dec. 28th. Read more about it HERE.

All for the Boys is collecting paper snowflakes so the students of Sandy Hook can be welcomed back to school with a winter wonderland. Read more about it HERE.

I {heart} Nap time is also collecting snowflakes (coffee filter snowflakes) to also help create a winter wonderland in the school. More info and tutorial on how to make the snowflakes is HERE.

Crochet Happy lets us know how to make crochet snowflakes for Sandy Hook and provides an address of where to send them HERE

For all you bloggers: Adrianne from Happy Hour Projects and Kelley from The Grant Life are hosting a joint link party starting this Thursday Dec. 20th. For every link, they are each going to donate 5 cents to the Sandy Hook fund at the Western CT United Way. Make a donation or just be sure to stop by the party and link up. Find the link party HERE (starting Thursday, Dec 20th at 4:15pm). UPDATE! Because of the support and donations from other bloggers, $1.00 will now be donated for every project linked up!

17 comments:

Hi! I'm a blogger that also runs the website, LinkyHere.com. I'm writing a post about bloggers offering support for the Newtown community for the LinkyHere blog on Monday. I'd love to include your Handmade Help project in it...basically include info about it with a link to this post. Is that OK?

Hi Shasta, that is wonderful! I am not personally heading up any project, just helping out others. Please feel free to head over to Snappy Tots blog and include her Beanies for Brave Students project! Here is the link: http://snappytots.blogspot.com/2012/12/beanies-for-brave-students.html

Thank you for your help...it was very helpful for me.Just found Vanna's at Joann's .....went to Wal Mart , Michael's ,Hobbie Loby and my last stop in Joann's ....but I got them.Also love how the beanir with the stripes is looking....just started them now,very fun and for a good theme.I will make one with the stripes ...like it very much.Thanks once again...did not know anything about this ...found out by you .....Blessings.I will also post them in my blog .Happy week.

Hello :) I am a fan of your patterns and I am also wanting to participate in making these hats but I am having a hard time finding a good pattern that isn't worked in a spiral. Do you have a link to a good pattern you could share? Thank you!

Just a heads up that I just received word that Newtown is not accepting anymore donations (of any kind). Whatever donations they do receive, will be given to other charities in the area. They did say if we wanted to donate in their honor, to think about organizations in our own area.

Is it confirmed Newtown is not accepting any more donations? I just spent all day driving around trying to find the right color of green yarn to make some beanies. I would still love to do this if it is still needed. I did try and find info online but was not successful. Thanks for the great blog! I love it and have had fun making some of your projects!

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